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“Thank you kindly for asking; we’ve got our health,
and when we keep tugging at the oars every day, we’ve
got bread and brandy too.”
They had reached land, and Sti stepped out and said
good-by.
“Lord,” said Marie, looking after him pityingly, “he’s
certainly been shorn of crest and wings too.”
Peacefully and quietly the days passed at the Burdock
House, with daily work and daily gain. Little by little, the
pair improved their condition, hired boatmen to do the
ferrying, carried on a little trade, and built a wing on their
old house. They lived to the end of the old century and ten
years into the new. Marie turned sixty, and she turned
sixty-five, and still she was as brisk and merry at her work
as if she had been on the sunny side of sixty. But then
it happened, on her sixty-eighth birthday, in the spring of
seventeen hundred and eleven, that Sören accidentally
shot and killed a skipper from Dragör under very
suspicious circumstances, and in consequence was arrested.
This was a hard blow to Marie. She had to endure a
long suspense, for judgment was not pronounced until
midsummer of the following year, and this, together with her
anxiety lest the old affair of his attempt on the life of Anne
Trinderup should be taken up again, aged her very much.
One day, in the beginning of this period of waiting,
Marie went down to meet the ferry just as it was landing.
There were two passengers on board, and one of these,
a journeyman, absorbed her attention by refusing to show
his passport, declaring that he had shown it to the
boatmen, when he went on board, which they, however,
denied. When she threatened to charge him full fare, unless
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